it's a moscow time tonight egypt's muslim lawmakers vote through a new constitution resembling hosni mubarak's rule while strengthening islamic law reigniting protests that those who believe the revolution is being betrayed. also reporting a political disconnect in germany parliament allows forty four billion more euros in aid for greece now but taxpayers you move are squandered for. this role of the u.s. versus the world as the two dismissed palestine success of the u.n. but more than two thirds of countries gave the go ahead to its state.

if you just joined us for a good evening i'm kevin oh it's good to have your company this is r.t. international our top story chips islamist dominated constitutional assembly has passed a new draft constitution documents based on sharia law and has triggered fresh protests across the country opposition activists say it's a betrayal of the revolutions ideals truths got the latest from cairo. the problem really stems from the constituent assembly itself many of the liberal leftist and church representatives actually walked out of the constituent assembly but they said it was bullying from the islamist factions that dominated the constitution writing body the key issues is the sharia law which many say the articles about sharia law leave open to interpretation to a very ultra orthodox interpretation and in addition the rights groups are saying that some articles are really impinging on human rights for example the practice of military trials of civilians which is condemned under international law it's actually included in the constitution this has been

a point of contention for revolutionaries since january two thousand and eleven this document will go to president morsi today and we expect to see it go to referee referendum popular referendum in the next few weeks because they opposition forces have pulled four million man marches across egypt and also they are continuing their sixteen and. we really will see probably more escalating violence we've seen on the streets recently because of what they calling a power grab by president morsi was referring to is a very controversial constitution but ration we awarded himself sweeping powers rival protest groups pro and anti more tea and more see who it is i've met on the streets really is that she was relatively fair amount of violence the last week including actually least one that really people are gearing up for more protests specially as we now have this draft constitution that people rightly. well truth in the think events in cairo is tweeting the latest developments for us the latest we've heard issues has watched being set up to moments of the actions of

protesters you can follow. the twitter feed right now. but in cairo throughout the latest protest he reports now on the consequences of the instability currently. after days of around the clock protests a cleanup operation is going on here in the streets risk. there's a lot of debris to be cleared up from the stones that were being ripped up from the pavements and thrown at the police this building here at the tree the branches ripped off the trees and fires were started here by groups of largely young male protesters not representative of the overall movement but a spillover that caused a lot of violence in the streets around toughest square the police built this hastily to stop the protesters getting further down we couldn't get anywhere near here throughout the days and nights of constant protest such was the thick clouds

of tear gas and the throwing stones understood the fires being lit in buildings many casualties on both sides being dragged away choking on the to gas and with injuries from flying stones a number of protesters have died and many many more have been wounded in protests around egypt over the past few days big protests planned in the coming days it's very much not the end of the story here and it may not be the end of the violence that we've seen in these protests. we've achieved from egypt shouldn't current party told us to defend you constitution gets through referendum it would even further cement the islamist grip on power. if it gets a popular vote that means it's more or less the constitution that would have filled there's another critical mass that would allow for an amendment however there is no

mechanism to propose an amendment to the constitution after it passes through the referendum which means that there has to be enough change within parliament and the hands of the non islamic parties so that they can propose such a change which seems to be a questionable with how the parliament of the previous parliament was consequent construed forty three percent of the muslim brotherhood and twenty seven percent of the salafist so even if there is a significant changes and you have a fifty fifty percent parliament of. an islamic that still seems to be questionable that you would you'd have such a change were to keep abreast of what was happening in egypt the unrest there on the background to what developments in the arab spring you had for a website dot com of course. there's been a collective sigh of relief in athens today as german lawmakers have passed

a massive new aid package for the indebted nation aside from releasing greeks of more cash it slashes interest rates delays payments and also even pushes back or sturdy deadlines however and that is people of the reports now those footing the bill are happy about it. germany will be giving more financial aid towards greece we saw m.p.'s voting with four hundred seventy three saying yes to this a package one hundred saying no and eleven abstentions now what this does mean no and it's been talked about throughout the week is. next year alone it could cost germany over seven hundred million euros but we are seeing the politicians at least giving their support financial support towards greece however that support isn't being particularly backed up by some of the electorate here people on the streets of germany suggesting that perhaps greece should be left to its own devices. that is enough because we won't see this money ever again. at some point it should be

stopped it's high time they were capable of helping themselves we're ok for now but someday we could also go to broke their silence spec north like not out to vote this is all you should be on and look we've already given at least so much more on the issues started already a lot going on on hunger started. and there's nothing more it's made and i don't think that well they were people speaking just outside of the reichstag but that seems to be reflected across the country a recent poll taken by a german television station says that forty six percent of germans want to see greece left to default left up to its own devices however the politicians in here in germany have voted through this next round of financial aid but it wasn't smooth sailing we saw a rate very confident looking angle a merkel posting her vote but that belies some rumblings of revolt within her own party and own coalition the words people saying no no no we are just going to rubber stamp any things put before us you've got to

prove this is in the best interests of germany of course all of this coming around as we enter what will be the campaigning season ahead of a general election here in germany next year so it does seem that the german politicians at least are on the side. trying to give more financial aid to greece oh that is the increasing amount of the electorate who seem to be suggesting they should be cut loose peed all over the world before the vote the german finance minister promised this would be the last time taxpayers would be asked to shallow for a decrease let's talk about this with a straight talk to you are going to join us on the line find out whether that promise berlin actually end of the day though we'll keep even should dr good have you on the program this aids been approved greece will now get its money and the conditions seem to be quite lenient isn't this exactly what athens needed. well that would be fine no i think that it's more with the politicians of the other european countries needed the they had to provide some funds to to greece. they're

still shying away from the real need of greece and it is significant right on on the greek debt and still hasn't happened so my projection is this was one crisis summit a rule differently see the next one coming in the coming weeks yeah there were hints of further aid for greece were in there what do you think. well i think that the point is right now we're always thinking on how to keep the the liquidity of the greek government debt. would we're not still not discussing in detail is how to reduce the debt and one option obviously in that would be the nicest one would be economic growth. not really in the cards and the other option is actually reducing it by down the nominal amount of debt meaning. a cut a haircut or writing it off via it from here it is yes reduce it right now we have

a debt ratio of about one hundred ninety percent to g.d.p. and i think we should be realistic even what they're talking about reducing it to one hundred twenty by i think one twenty percent by twenty twenty or twenty twenty two i think was the target date that's not really sick sustainable and i think we should rethink think about reducing debt levels to maybe sixty or eighty percent of g.d.p. there but help greece to discharge from from a new basis but we're not discussing it right now no exactly so basically cutting to the chase in your expert opinion very briefly what's happened today is a waste of time no it is definitely a waste of time it's just help the two to keep the to pretend that the petition is on control of what's going on where they are in control of this is controlling the funds they're transferring to to athens but not really helping

athens getting on its feet again some see a german supporter even if it's just verbal as the glue of course holding the eurozone together can germany afford to hold back its help i guess it can't can it i think the whole thing is a political thing germany is committed to the euro project i think the germans the german politicians. really fear being. shown the s d s the nation that brings down the euro so they try everything to keep the euro in tech. i think germany has not alternative economically i think it puts it will put a lot of pressure the question is will it just be greece and maybe portugal which we probably can't sustain the more interesting question will it stop there or will we see more problems in the mediterranean come to your country where we stand at the moment what december twenty twelve heading into another year will still be reporting about this next year at length and where do we stand with the german

economy could it still withstand the eurozone collapse. no definitely not i mean if you really talk about a euro zone collapse that would mean lots of costs associated to this and i think this is not in the cards and it's the reason why the politicians really shy away from this thing but one thing that politicians should get used to thinking of is it doesn't really help greece to to remain in the euro zone and maybe all to portugal and maybe one or two other countries would they be better off being outside the euro zone so they would not script the entire project but maybe rewrite it again of course for some countries and not cutting off aid by getting them out of the euro but giving them a fresh perspective out of the euro where they could to go yet for example their currencies dr thanks for being on the program to get diarrhea maybe clear it will come back to you next year i'm sure we have the same chance again dr young hagen the faculty member of the european school of management and technology thank you

thank you. all the way it's the nobel laureates versus the e.u. find later from us by some of those who've received the prestigious peace prize want to strip the union of its award now. and the arab spring encroaches on kuwait with a staunch western ally witnessing organized mass protests against corruption in the in the ma. again the story we've got around tonight for you. a lovely quiet morning a family jet li sleeps in district heights maryland when fifty armed f.b.i. agents storm the house and guns drawn despite the family pleading that they were unarmed the law enforcement agents opened fire on a weaponless teenager my asian huli thankfully sholay suffered minor flesh wounds

but the key issue is that it remains unknown as to why the house was stormed so here in america for no reason guys in black uniforms storm someone's house all loaded some rounds and left with no justification or explanation yes the family still doesn't know why this happened the f.b.i. is remaining silent you know i understand that there are some very bad individuals out there doing some very bad stuff at home but if you don't even really know whose house you're storming or why you're storming it then maybe you should lay off the siege for a while you know what take a few minutes to think it over have a cup of coffee and maybe even do a little google search about the fourth amendment but it's just my opinion. the great russian laureates. prevailing over hazards and asperity.

to reenact an epic parade through paris. come a complete triumph. with people's admiration for two hundred. straight on the button here in moscow this is r.t. several nobel laureates demanding that the e.u.

be stripped of its peace prize they've written an open protest letter saying this use when it doesn't fit the brief from the q. says the no way based committee indeed of adopting the award beyond its original purpose has got to speed on this from sarah from. london studio tonight hi sarah so why are they so against the you getting the prize was wrong with it. well this is archbishop desmond tutu and two of the naval naval peace prize laureates along with a number of other think that phrase he's trying to say contesting the awarding of this peace prize to the european union and now in that letter they said that the twenty seven they simply getting this award contradicts the valley's safety ated with the pricing what they want to see happening is the one point a million dollar prize money not be awarded this year and they all say said the clearly not one of the champions of peace a consensus here amongst the thinking teeth and indeed among many many people when

this award was announced this year was that really the awarding of the prize the european union not in the keeping of the spirit of the naval peace prize course some of these being a far from a peaceful place i mean you personally yourself have covered stories of protests and unrest across the e.u. over the last few years so i hope how did they decide to award the peace prize to the e.u. what were you thinking about them. well absolutely we've been on the ground throughout the year of crisis and indeed this last year you know r.t. have covered this all eurozone countries from greece to madrid support froogle you know i've been on the ground some of the big protest movements that we've seen over the last year and you would really have to let your imagination to visualize signs of peace amongst the european union at this time you know that the prize was awarded at a time when the e.u. is they think the biggest crisis it's faced since its creation we're seeing huge say she love rest and you know what a lot of people are saying is that the european union at the moment really for

a lot of people. come to represent divisions within society we've seen those divisions between the rich in the poor between those who employed this around employed you know the people that we speak and see in these countries really feel very very let down the vision of the european union was about peace and democracy and that's certainly not what people feel that they're getting now you know we've just had the usa its latest on an unemployment figures released today and it shows it in all teva hit a new high eighteen point seven million people out of work that you know these are countries that really have seen a very very let down by the you know what motivated what was the logic toward this and the day was it just to bring a bit of good news to the. well the committee said that at the time they would say that they were praising the e.u. and they said that it had rebuilt after the second world war and was spreading stability to former communist countries again promoting peace and democracy if you

look at the mission statement alfred nagel's mission statement when this prize was created in the first place he set out to award peace activists he's really done their part over the past year to promote peace and so really a lot of people feeling that it being awarded the really keeping the whole concept is really quickly not first on the nobel committee is a vote a controversial decision those through. as you know ninety thousand and nine we thought it would if the president obama many people feeling that was being awarded the peace activities he might do at some point in the feet again very much not in keeping with the world we are talking about she got some reactions of their own to this latest piece of information about it being contested we had an m.e.p. jerry back in say it's highly devious with the even fulfill the rules under which the award should be given and he also said that it's ludicrous if he has had nothing to do with keeping the peace in europe it would have made more sense to avoid it in a place where i mean really vary from reaction from calls to this prize being

awarded to as he said movement a project that many people feel represents the total opposite to peace so first in london thank you. unfortunate and counterproductive that's how washington describes the u.n. general assembly is a storage vote despite more than two thirds of the world saying yes to publish stones to israel's prime minister call the move meaningless and warn the palestinian people that the dr would bring no change to their lives more martyrs paula sleep in than in tel aviv. these ladies certainly are downplaying the significance of this vote although we have seen them would juice the kind of rhetoric that they've been after in over the past few weeks and months so they're no longer issuing the same kinds of threats that they were before presumably because they understand that this will only further isolate them in the international community the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has repeatedly said that this vote does not change the reality on the ground the israeli position is that it is

a unilateral step by the palestinians they accuse the resolution of being one sided both the united states and israel saying that it's not going to change the reality on the ground in this despite the fact that we're hearing in some quarters of the international community and certainly from palestinians themselves that it is a significant step at the same time there is a concern of course with him as well that the palestinians will now use the new status to go for example to the international criminal court in the hague where they can accuse israel of alleged crimes and of course these kind of threats in the past has prevented some israeli lawmakers as well as military leaders who are traveling abroad because they're all concerned that could be a wasted over such issues the united states through its unflinching support for israel has alienated a lot of its old time allies in the united nations susan rice the american ambassador to the united nations after slamming the vote again reiterated the american position that it will not change anything on the ground to

a grand pronouncements. and the palestinian people will wake up tomorrow and find that little about their lives has changed today's vote should not be misconstrued by any as constituting eligibility for u.n. membership it does not this resolution does not establish that palestine is a state and yet talking to the average israeli on the street largely the response here is muted most israelis i've been talking to are actually by and large ignoring this fundamental and historic occasion which is a far cry from the kind of reaction we witnessing on the streets in palestine. the world's attitude towards the palestinian drive for greater independence has changed from that of last year though let's take a european countries for instance into the eleven palestinians sought and finally received membership in the un's cultural agency unesco the majority of european

states then neither abstained or rejected the bid while at the u.n. vote on thursday of course the czech republic became the only country to say no to the palestinian resolution and many of those who abstained last year decided to support the palestinians now. well this is this this increased recognition this increase in status in the united nations is a manifestation of increased world international solidarity with the palestinian situation and this will actually bring hopefully a manifest improvement for the palestinians in respect of their access to international law and that ability to have the rule of law applied to their relationship with the state of israel so here in gaza where we just witnessed an israeli military operation exacted on the gaza strip in which fifty nine children were killed seventeen babies were killed palestinians are hoping that this increase in legal status will deter. a nother on sort like that in which palestinians believe that the crime of facing war crimes committed against the population here

in gaza in the west bank they have a situation not with such sort of military violence but they have on the ground direct military occupation they have according to palestinians in palestinian terminology an illegal colonise ation process with illegal settlements being built so that what the hope is in both bits of palestine that is left there will be some practical improvement albeit a small one for them and for their lives. and we fear tens of thousands of people have marched in kuwait on the eve of the parliamentary election where opposition supporters are protesting against electoral changes which they say give an unfair advantage to the ruling coalition are duty cuffe now has been following the rally. this is the heart of kuwait simmering opposition movements for thousands of gathered in the streets to protest what they see as massive corruption at the top of the some version of the rule of law as well as increasing clampdown on the santa

it's not unlikely kolisch an abuse groups liberals as well as hard line islamists would all join together in photos of saturday's elementary elections many people in this country now feel that the political system the longer represents them which is why they're calling on people not to take on saturday and not participate and could count on coming saturday to give more certainty and still a gamble and its allies became increasingly violent clashes in the streets between the opposition and security forces were ordered to using tear gas and stun grenades as well as somebody bullets in order to disperse the rallies effectively more fierce about a clamp down on dissent many activists are spoken out either against me in here or the government arrested for their comments the crisis was sparked by earlier this year when a wave stopped before it had a normal to every problem entry election results which would give an islamist a majority in the board and then reinstated the previous assembly which is perceived as being tied to the ruling family what's more the electoral laws were

changed in this country in such a way that many people who have gathered in the streets they feel that it is impossible for the opposition to win a victory in saturday's election which is why so many people are calling another kuwaitis to potts the vote now we know that the western countries will be watching what happens in kuwait quite closely as well but remember any sort of unrest on the ground in this country is bound to affect oil prices as well as the pentagon's plans to use the small world rich nation as a hub for its ground forces in order to counter what it perceives as threat by iran but the ordinary kuwaitis they really feel like they're stuck in the middle they don't necessarily feel that the government will represent their political interests for the surly trust that is going to stop position to protect their so. liberties but nothing shows up outrage like this one show that the gulf war isn't enough to inflate the country's people taking to the streets demanding a greater stake in their political system. from off the complete change of tack

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